Wiegala - by Ilse Weber - UN Geneva Ceremony to Commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Wiegala - Ilse Weber
Ilse Weber was a Czech author and songwriter. When the Nazis occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939, the Webers were able to get their eldest son to safety in Sweden through Kindertransport. Ilse, her husband, and their younger son Tommy were sent to Theresienstadt in February 1942.
She worked in the camp's children's hospital at night, doing all she could for the patients without the help of medicine, as it was forbidden for Jewish prisoners. She wrote many poems while she was there and set a good number of them to music. She would accompany herself on guitar while she sang her lullaby-like songs to children and the elderly of the ghetto. When her husband was deported to Auschwitz two years later, she and Tommy went with him so as not to break up their family. It is said that Ilse sang to her son and many other children as she accompanied them voluntarily into the gas chambers.
Voice + guitar: Yael Yekel
Arrangment and piano: Amit Weiner
Violin: Marc Crofts
Performed at the 2023 UN Geneva Ceremony to Commemorate International Holocaust
Remembrance Day
Read more about the project: www.aweinermus...
Videography: UNTV, Dvir Chalamish
Sound: Roy Geva
Lyrics:
Wiegala, wiegala, weier,
der Wind spielt auf der Leier,
er spielt so süß im grünen Ried,
die Nachtigall, die singt ihr Lied.
Wiegala, wiegala, weier,
der Wind spielt auf der Leier.
Wiegala, wiegala, werne,
der Mond ist die Laterne,
er steht am dunklen Himmelszelt
und schaut hernieder auf die Welt.
Wiegala, wiegala, werne,
der Mond ist die Laterne,
Wiegala, wiegala, wille,
wie ist die Welt so stille!
Es stört kein Laut die süße Ruh,
schlaf mein Kindchen, schlaf auch du.
Wiegala, wiegala, wille,
wie ist die Welt so stille!
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